Improved machine for mixing soap, paint, paste



NPETEHS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

- m'rnnf f STATES? JOI-nv. sTAiN'rHORP, ,OF NEW YORK, ,NQ Y.

IMPR'V'ED`MACHINE FOR MIXING- SOAP, PAINT, PASTE, AND OTHER.

SIMILAR MATERIALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,741, dated October l2, 1869.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOHN STAINTHORP, of NewYork,in the county and State ofN ew York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Mixing Soap, Paint, Paste, or any other Liquid and Solid Substance or Substances; and I do hereby declare that the followingisa full and exactdescription thereof',

- reference being had to the annexed drawings,

forming part of this my specification, in which is represented a vertical sectional elevation of an improved mixing-vessel constructed according to my invention.

This mixing-vessel is represented as if cut through its center, and the drawing will show at a glance the whole of the machine.

A is a vessel of spheroidal shape, mounted upon a vertical hollow shaft, B, which is bolted or otherwise fastened to the vessel A, so as to form part of the same. I

Vis a valve, which serves the purpose of closing and opening the hollow shaft B, which thus becomes the draw-off pipe of the vessel A by that simple arrangement, and allows of the vessel A being emptied without stopping the rotating motion which is imparted to it, as hereafter explained.

The hollow shaft B is mounted in suitable bearings C C, in which it can turn freely, and it is provided with any suitable gearing, (in my drawings represented by the letter 1),) to communicate to said shaft B, and to the kettle or vessel A, a rotary motion of any required speed for the well working of the machine.

J and J are stirring-wheels, made of concentric flat rims, jointed together -by radial or spoke-like braces, with or without projecting oblique or straight blades, of any desired mode of construction, but being both located and mounted so as to revolve on a common axis, in opposite direction, one from the otherthat is to say, if the wheel J turns with the sun, the wheel J will be made to turn against the sun.

The center upon which the wheels J and J revolve is located at the height of the center of the spheroidal vessel, so that both wheels J and J, in revolving in a vertical plane, will always have their outside rims working close to the inside surface of the vessel A, without touching the same, and all the rims of the said wheels J and J will describe, by their motion, equatorial lines in the spheroidal vessel A.

To obtain the reverse motion of the two wheels J and J, as well as their combined motion with the revolving motion of the kettle or vessel A, I have employed in my drawings the horizontal shaft K, upon. which the wheel J is fastened, the hollow shaft L playing freely upon theshaft K', upon which the wheel J is mounted, the gearings T, shaft E, and spur-wheels F and D, the whole mounted in the frame X X X, and driven by the pulley H and belt g.

rIhe stirring-wheels J and J, I sometimes make dishing, and lind it better adapted for certain substances to he mixed when made of that shape (see J) than when made straight, as is J.

I contemplate also, iu some cases, to put more than one stirring-wheel on each shaft K and L, and I have also contemplated using only one stirring-wheel, which I find to answer the purpose in some cases, or several stirring-wheels, all on the same shaft but the machine I now make has only two stirringwheels-one on the shaft K, the other on the shaft L.

I do not restrict myself to the speed which is given in my drawings to the stirringwheels, as compared tothe speed of the kettle. In some cases the kettle has to move faster than the stirring-wheels, in other cases the wheels have to move faster than the kettle or vessel A, and sometimes both wheels are to have a different speed, so that different gearings have to be used, and therefore I do not claim nor confine myself to the gearings exhibited in my drawings.

I do not claim any novelty in a revolving mixing kettle or vessel, nor in vertical stirringwheels in themselves; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, 1s

l. A mixing-vessel of spheroidal shape, rotating on its center, in combination and arrangement with vtwo or more'miXing-wheels, revolving in like or opposite directions, and

in `vertical planes, the whole Working and operating in the manner and for the purpose specied.

2. The pipe B and valve V, in com bnation with the kettle or vessel A, as set; forth.

3. The wheel J', or its equivalent-that is to say, a stirring-Wheel formed of thin rims,

mounted so ajs to present a. dishing shape, as represented and set forth,

JOHN STAINTHORP.

VVVitnessee:

WALTER S. PETTIT, JoNA. BELL. 

